Cryptography
ENISA published new guidelines on cryptography
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2014-12-04
- Management, crypto, Cryptography, ENISA, EU, recommendation, report
European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) has published the cryptographic guidelines “Algorithms, key size and parameters” 2014 as an update to the 2013 report. This year, the report has been extended to include a section on hardware and software side-channels, random number generation, and key life cycle management. The part of the ...
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Crypto Wars 2.0: Let the Trolling Commence (and don’t trust your phone)
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2014-11-03
- Society, attacks, crypto, Cryptography, device, encryption, limitations, mobile, security, Sven Tuerpe, system
An excellent article by Sven Tuerpe argues that we pay excessive attention to the problems of encryption and insufficient – to the problems of system security. I wholeheartedly agree with that statement. Read the original article: Crypto Wars 2.0: Let the Trolling Commence (and don’t trust your phone). Security cannot be based solely on the ...
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Cryptography: just do not!
- Albert Zenkoff
- 2012-10-16
- Technology, Algorithm, Cryptography, Development, don't, encryption, hashing, homegrown, philosophy, software, technology
Software developers regularly attempt to create new encryption and hashing algorithms, usually to speed up things. There is only one answer one can give in this respect: Here is a short summary of reasons why you should never meddle in cryptography. Cryptography is mathematics, very advanced mathematics There are only a few good cryptographers and ...
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Albert Zenkoff
Managing corporate security in both technical and business sense in the context of long-term business strategy and sustainability.
For security consulting, training, certification and audit mail albert@aruberusan.com.
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